Dream Land

by SarahColeman (Designer), Lily Hyde (Author), Sarah Coleman (Designer)

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2008
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One girl's struggle to find her true home. It was meant to be like coming home... All her life, Safi's parents have dreamed of returning to Grandpa's native village in Crimea. But exchanging their sunny Uzbekistan house for a squalid camp is more like a nightmare. Will the return to a country where no one welcomes them tear Safi's family apart, or can this strange land ever become home? A compelling story about the Crimean Tatars' struggle to reclaim the land from which they were exiled in the Second World War.

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One girl's struggle to find her true home. It was meant to be like coming home... All her life, Safi's parents have dreamed of returning to Grandpa's native village in Crimea. But exchanging their sunny Uzbekistan house for a squalid camp is more like a nightmare. Will the return to a country where no one welcomes them tear Safi's family apart, or can this strange land ever become home? A compelling story about the Crimean Tatars' struggle to reclaim the land from which they were exiled in the Second World War.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Publisher: Walker
Published: 01 Sep 2008
ISBN 10: 1406307653
ISBN 13: 9781406307658
Children’s book age: 12+ Years

Author Bio

Lily Hyde is a British freelance writer and journalist based in Kiev, and has been covering cultural and social issues in the former Soviet Union for several years. Her journalism and travel writing have been widely published in the international press, including Newsweek, Marie Claire and New Internationalist. She also works as a consultant on HIV/AIDS and public health information. She has had short stories published, and Riding Icarus (9781406307665) was her first novel.